Rescuers from the Italian Coast Guards patrol a flooded street on May 21, 2023 in Conselice, near Ravenna, after deadly floodwaters hit the Emilia-Romagna region (Andreas SOLARO / AFP) ROME, Italy -- More than 23,000 people in northeast Italy were still displaced Monday almost one week after heavy...
(AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) DUBLIN, Ireland -- Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland's regulator announced on Monday. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which...
Smoke rises above buildings in southern Khartoum on May 19, 2023, as violence between two rival Sudanese generals continues. (AFP) KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Gunfire and explosions again rocked Sudan's capital Monday, hours before a one-week humanitarian ceasefire was due to take effect after a series of...
Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat (centre L) and Pheu Thai Party leader Cholanan Srikaew (centre R) hold a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by eight Thai political parties in agreement to form a new government, in Bangkok on May 22, 2023. (Lillian...
Activists of Pasban-e-Hurriyat, a Kashmiri refugee organisation, hold an anti-India protest in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 22, 2023, against the G20 tourism meet being held in the Indian-administered Kashmir. (Sajjad QAYYUM / AFP) SRINAGAR, India -- A G20...
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) poses for a photo with President of the European Council Charles Michel (L) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during their meeting at the Presidential Office in Seoul on May 22, 2023. (JUNG YEON-JE / POOL) SEOUL, South Korea -- Two...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- At least 19 youths were killed and several injured in a school dormitory blaze in Guyana, the tiny South American country's fire brigade said on Monday. It is not yet known how the fire started Sunday in a dormitory housing girls aged 11-12 and 16-17, a person who helped the...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's sheep outnumber people by fewer than five to one, official figures showed Monday, clipping their lead over humans to the lowest level since the 1850s. New Zealanders have far fewer of the woolly grazers than their Australian rivals, said the government body...
US Secretary of States Antony Blinken (3rd-R) holds a bilateral meeting with Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape (L) during the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation at APEC Haus in Port Moresby on May 22, 2023. (ADEK BERRY / AFP) PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- Papua New...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, causing swelling economic damage even as early warning systems have meant dramatically fewer deaths, the United Nations said Monday. Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused 11,778 reported disasters...
Leaders take part in the "Outreach Session 6" meeting during the second day of the G7 Summit Leaders' Meeting in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. (Handout / Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) HIROSHIMA, Japan -- The world must urgently assess the impact of generative artificial intelligence, G7...
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky disembarks upon his arrival at Hiroshima Airport at Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture, on the second day of the G7 Summit Leaders' Meeting on May 20, 2023. (Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) HIROSHIMA, Japan -- President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Hiroshima for talks with...
